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In the 1983 NFL draft, Elway was selected as the first overall pick by the Baltimore Colts, and on May 2 was traded to the Denver Broncos. On January 11, 1987, Elway executed "The Drive"—a last-ditch, five-minute, 15-play, 98-yard touchdown drive in the AFC Championship against the Cleveland Browns to tie the game late in the fourth quarter ...
Of the six first round quarterbacks drafted, Hall of Famers Elway and Kelly did not sign with the teams that selected them for the 1983 season. Elway, who had made his antipathy towards the Colts and coach Frank Kush, a harsh disciplinarian, known long before the draft, was also a promising baseball player in the New York Yankees organization.
The film's main focus was on John Elway's desire to not play for the Colts, citing their dysfunctional status and the sheer dislike of despised then-owner Robert Irsay, and the attempts by the Colts to trade their #1 draft pick to other teams. Accorsi's plan was to trade the draft rights to Elway for a top-10 draft pick, which he was then going ...
The Elway controversy became more interesting when Elway's Broncos visited Baltimore for the second game of the season. The Broncos won that game 17–10. Later, when the teams faced each other again in Denver for the second-to-last game of the season, the Colts took a 19–0 lead over the Broncos, only to blow the lead in the fourth quarter ...
In 1998 the Colts, for the 4th time in 15 years, held the 1st overall pick in the draft and for the 3rd time in 15 years selected a quarterback – this time University of Tennessee's Peyton Manning. Manning started the first game of his rookie season and started every single Colts game since until the start of the 2011 season, when a recurring ...
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John Elway * Denver Broncos A: 1987: XXII: Doug Williams MVP: Washington Redskins N: John Elway * Denver Broncos A: 1988: XXIII: Joe Montana * San Francisco 49ers N: Boomer Esiason: Cincinnati Bengals A: 1989: XXIV: Joe Montana * MVP: San Francisco 49ers N: John Elway * Denver Broncos A: 1990: XXV: Jeff Hostetler: New York Giants N: Jim Kelly ...
Quarterback John Elway arrived in 1983. Originally drafted by the Baltimore Colts as the first pick of the draft, Elway proclaimed that he would shun football in favor of baseball (he was drafted by the New York Yankees to play center field) unless he was traded to one of a selected list of other teams, which included Denver. [30]